摘要：The text of this volume comprises 257 pages, the 946 references cover 52 pages, and the index, well arranged and complete, includes 21 pages. Robertson modestly calls this scholarly contribution a review, although his own exact observations, added to those of many others, justify designation of the volume as a monograph. Beginning with Morgagni, there is a chronologic, itemized, well documented and often detailed statement of studies made and condusions reached by many investigators. The orderly development of events is wisely broken by timely chapters on special features, induding bacteriology, influence of nervous system, urography, ureteral reflux, hormones, potassium-calcium ratios and vitamins.
